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Whatever could go wrong went wrong

Had a slow start to the day but whatever could go wrong went wrong today.

Was planning to play a video for NS west disicples' meet today and asked Yinglin to lend me a set of speakers. Booked Europe room so that i can play the video on the projector. I'll play the video for 50 mins and challenge the group. After that the east will come in for WFL and we can have an amazing time of learning from the word of God. yeah, good plan but whatever could go wrong, went wrong.

1345: Ying Lin forgot to bring the speakers. Ha. Junliang called me and asked me if i had a plan B. Oh well, i could go to nexus and try and dig up some speakers i suppose.

1350: But nexus dun have! Asked around and can't find a speaker. It was really important as my entire meeting was a video sermon by Bill Hybels.

1359: When i reached reception, i was pleasantly surprised when i saw Yinglin carrying a set of brand new speakers. Haa.. according to him, he was so guild striken that he went to buy a pair. Wow. Thanks Yinglin for the spirit of excellence.

1400: I walked into Europe room planning to carry on with my perfectly planned meeting. Guess what, Pastor Lawrance said he booked the room! Well, i doubled check with the online booking thingy and i was certain the room was mine. so its a case of double booking again. Oh well. I couldn't possibly chase the Hope Bangkok worship team who is here to give guest music lessons out right? so here we go on the frantic search and negotiation for room.

1420: After 20 mins of calling people and negotiation, i decided to move the west disciples' meet to B1 and WFL to istana Park. Thanks Carmen and Eevoon for your willingness to help find a solution out of this. But guess its God's plan for us not to be so comfortable since today's WFL teaching is on persecution.

1430: We finally settled down on B1 and started disciples meet. It was weird to have 10 guys sitting in the middle of the way and blasting an online sermon loud on the speakers. There were many onlookers but it went well. Really God blessed that there was no security guard who came to chase us away. Normally they will chase us away after 5 minutes but this time round, we stayed there for an entire hour! Praise God! We even had to steal electricity for the speakers and the laptop from some obscure powerpoint!

1445: We had to rush down for WFL. Guess what, it started to pour. The place was terrible for teaching. It was the worse place possible to teach.

It was pouring really heavily and loudly.
There was a dance practice going on.
There were people learning guitar with a super loud tambourine .
There were people smoking.
The worse was one a group of people started to celebrate a birthday by smashing cake and throwing someone into the water.

I was like wow, what an environment to teach about persecution.

But i really want to salute our two teachers for the day, Hanyang and YingLin. They really really did very well in this kind of environment. I am so proud of them.

Hanyang teaching the 1st point

YingLin taking the 2nd

Regards,

Jie Hui

Labels: NS Ministry

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Saturday, August 30, 2008